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Franklin Hyde

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Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle.     His Uncle came upon Franklin Hyde     Carousing in the Dirt.     He Shook him hard from Side to Side     And Hit him till it Hurt,     Exclaiming, with a Final Thud,     "Take that! Abandoned boy!     For Playing with Disgusting Mud     As though it were a Toy!"     Moral:     From Franklin Hyde's adventure, learn     To pass your Leisure Time     In Cleanly Merriment, and turn     From Mud and Ooze and Slime     And every form of Nastiness     But, on the other Hand,     Children in ordinary Dress     May always play with Sand.

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